I keep telling myself (and my offline pals) that it's the first week of JULY, things have not gotten off the ground quite yet, etc. at the same time, it always helps me to hear someone else say these things--so thank you for always lending a little sanity to the rest of us.
At this point I’m trying to reassure myself as much as anyone else amid the collective freak out we’ve seen over the last few days, but I figure doing it publicly could help some others in the same boat.
Also? This election will be decided by a small number of swing voters. These are not the people reading The NY Times headlines. They are the soybean farmer in WI. This will be an election of issues, with large numbers of voters in both parties holding their nose and voting for an old white man.
The main problem is that Biden is not going to get any less old between now and then.
But on the flipside, Trump could easily choke on a hamberder and die. Either one of them could stroke out at any moment.
There is a difference between a fact (Biden is old, Biden had a bad debate) and a narrative around a fact (Biden is senile, doesn't know what's going on, voters can't trust his judgment, blah blah blah). A narrative can always be changed.
No, this is fundamentally incorrect (not just about Biden, but about everything). People see things and then spin them according to what they want to see and believe. "People have eyeballs and earholes" would have prevented Donald Trump from being famous, let alone the President.